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...failed to diversify his crops. Such large-scale farmers as Montana's Thomas Donald Campbell believe that farm corporations of the future must own land in three or more parts of the U. S. to insure themselves against failure because of rust in Nebraska, rain in Alberta, drought in Kansas or hail in Texas...
Last week in North Carolina the annual "tobacco break" was again taking place. Highways were filled with trucks and wagons, crowds jammed into the warehouses. Their crops reduced by abandoned acreage, drought and insects, the growers were delighted when the chanting did not stop at the "ay-ay-ay'' of eight or the "ni-ni-ni" of nine. Average prices varied from 10? to 13? against 4? to 6? last year. Despite their poor crops, most farmers fared better than in 1931. All the big companies making 15?-packages of cigarets were actively in the market. They hoped...
...side-splitting cachinnation excite a sympathetic titter in the audience. Unless the film has been miserably cut, it is filled with inexcusably bewildering digressions: the Playgoer is still puzzling over the meaning of storm upon storm, hands beating the harem door, the profusion of dead camels,--a species reputedly drought-proof,--and many prayers to Allah. Apparently these loose ends are tucked in for the footage, or perhaps it is just the Russian...
...were harvested in the bumper year of 1931, this year's crop was forecast at 458,000,000 bu., a drop of 42%. The Great Plains had had a dry autumn, a dry winter, a dry spring. Planters were abandoning their winter wheat acreage in the face of drought. The economic consequences of last year's overproduction probably had more to do with a reduced yield than the Farm Board's pleas to cut acreage. July wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade began the week at 58? per bu.- 3¢ below last year...
...into the mud, began to breathe with lungs, explains Joel. Next natural development would have been for it to be able to crawl out on land, but the lungfish never got that far. The only benefit it got from its lungs was the ability to live through periods of drought. Encysted in sun-baked mud it could live on air and its own tissues for months, even for years. From the papyrus roots of Lake Victoria Joel two years prior had collected specimens of the fish, called Kamongo by the blacks. Now he is taking more of them, packed...